2afraid2ask
freeware recommendations
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Disketch CD Label Software
Disketch CD Label Software
Disketch is a free CD and DVD disc labeling software for Windows. It allows you to create CD and DVD disc labels as well as cover images for CD and DVD jewel cases. You can import your own art work, or set a simple background colors and organize artist information along with track lists.
undercoverxp.tk
undercoverxp.tk
UndercoverXP is a small program to easily print CD and DVD covers. It supports JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP formats and can automatically scale front covers, back covers, front + inside, inlays, DVD Boxes, Digital Pictures and CD/DVD labels to the correct sizes.
SnapFolders
SnapFolders:
"A great tool for any Windows user, SnapFolders will enable you to create shortcuts to your favorite folders really fast."
FreeCommander - freeware file manager
FreeCommander - freeware file manager:
"FreeCommander is an easy-to-use alternative to the standard windows file manager. The program helps you with daily work in Windows. Here you can find all the necessary functions to manage your data stock. You can take FreeCommander anywhere - just copy the installation directory on a CD or USB-Stick - and you can even work with this program on a foreign computer."
Universal Viewer (ATViewer) - Home page
Universal Viewer (ATViewer) - Home page:
"Universal Viewer (ATViewer) is an advanced file viewer with wide range of formats supported"
Flexense - Advanced File Management Tools
Flexense - Advanced File Management Tools:
"FlexTk is a file management toolkit allowing one to perform:
* File Search, Classification and Organization
* Advanced, Multi-Stream File Synchronization
* Rule-Based, Fault-Tolerant Data Migration
* Advanced Storage Utilization Analysis
* High-Speed, Multi-Stream File Copy
* Duplicate Files Detection
* Disk Space Clean-Up"
Pandora File Recovery
Pandora File Recovery - Find and recover deleted files of any type - free.:
"Pandora Recovery is a powerful free tool that provides its users an effective way to attempt recovery of permanently deleted files. And that does not mean restoration of a file from Recycle Bin. Pandora Recovery actually recovers files permanently removed from Recycle Bin, files originally deleted using Shift Delete keys bypassing Recycle Bin and files deleted from DOS prompt."
Zipeg
Zipeg - Got pictures? Zip thru JPEG photo archives:
"Zipeg is free alternative to WinZip, WinRar, StuffIt.
Zipeg supports:
*
Formats: ZIP, RAR, 7z, ARJ, LHA, TGZ, TAR and many many more."
Monday, July 28, 2008
Free Registry Cleaner, Disk Cleaner
Free Registry Cleaner, Disk Cleaner
Wise Registry Cleaner speeds up your PC by cleaning your Registry. The Registry is at the heart of every Windows computer.
Wise Registry Cleaner will make your Windows computer faster and more stable. It removes the junk that accumulates in your Windows Registry. You can safely and easily clean your registry.
By cleaning your disk with Wise Disk Cleaner, your computer will run faster, and you won't have to worry as much about filling your hard drive and replacing it with a newer, bigger one.
Wise Disk Cleaner is a user friendly, fast and easy to use application developed to free up disk space by deleting junk files that are no longer used by any software on your system. Even the least experienced user can easily remove junk files with this tool.
BeClean
BooZet Freeware � Products � BeClean:
"BeClean is the complete suite of system cleaner. It has Registry Cleaner, Internet Cleaner, History Cleaner, Temporary Files Cleaner, Disk Cleaner, Desktop Cleaner and Start Menu Cleaner."
Double Driver
BooZet Freeware � Products � Double Driver:
"With Double Driver you can view which drivers are installed in your system and you can backup the drivers you choose, save and print the drivers list, and more."
Sunday, July 27, 2008
ProcessScanner
ProcessScanner from ProcessLibrary.com:
"This free application will give you a complete analysis of all the processes running on your PC, along with a risk analysis of each one!"
KillProcess
KillProcess:
"KillProcess is an application assassin of the extreme kind. It can terminate almost any process on a Windows machine, including any service and process running in the system. Even protected Microsoft system processes can be terminated. All of this can be done in the matter of milliseconds"
CodeStuff :: Starter
CodeStuff :: Starter:
"As a primary purpose, Starter allows one to view and manage all the programs that are starting automatically whenever operating system is loading. It enumerates all the hidden registry entries, startup folders' items and some of the initialization files, so that the user could choose to temporarily disable selected entries, edit them, create new, or delete them permanently.
Secondary purpose is to list all the running processes with possibility to view extended process' information (such as used DLLs, memory usage, thread count, priorities etc.), and to terminate selected process (even a Windows NT service, having enough access rights).
Another one is Windows' services (and drivers) manager with some advanced features."
Startup Inspector
Startup Inspector:
"Startup Inspector for Windows is a Windows� platform software that helps both novice and expert user manage Windows� startup applications. On www.windowsstartup.com, there are more than 4,900 known programs in the database. Startup Inspector for Windows can thus provide a consultative information on the programs that are running at your Windows startup process. Whether a program is necessary to the system, or is the program a spyware."
RunScanner
RunScanner freeware startup, hijack and malware analyzer:
"RunScanner is a freeware windows system utility which scans your system for all running programs, autostart locations, drivers, services and hijack points."
Saturday, July 26, 2008
AutoBackup
AutoBackup
Fab's Autobackup is a program which allows users to backup and restore personal data and settings
like emails, documents, internet browser bookmarks...
You can use it as Windows PE plugin (developped for Bart's PE Builder) and as a standalone program for Windows.
PicPick
Wiziplog :: PicPick v1.7.2 Release (08/03/2007): "PicPick is an all-in-one software for software developers, graphic designers and home user.
It has an intuitive interface and simple, elegant operation. After starting the software, you simply select one of the tool from the PicPick Tools trayicon menu when you want.
It features a powerful capture tool, image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard and etc. You can use all these tools freely."
CopyWipe
Hard Drive Copy and Secure Wipe Software - CopyWipe:
"CopyWipe™ is a utility for copying or securely overwriting (wiping/erasing) entire hard drives. CopyWipe can ease and expedite the transition to a new hard drive by copying the entire contents of one drive to another. CopyWipe can also help prevent confidential or private data from being recovered, by securely wiping the contents of a drive."
WireNote
WiredPlane.com :: WireNote - Lightweight PIM with Sticky notes, Reminders, LAN messenger and anti-spam filter:
"With WireNote, you can quickly create Sticky Notes and ToDos from the tray icon, the main window, or a hotkey. You can prioritize ToDos, and log and analyze the time spent on each with the ToDo report feature.
You can schedule Reminders to play sounds, display Notes or ToDos, send messages to other users, start programs, or even shut down your computer. If WireNote is installed on more than one computer on a LAN, you can send Reminders to other users or store them in a shared folder making them visible to all users."
Friday, July 25, 2008
Winsonar 2008
Winsonar:
"Winsonar 2008 is a program specifically designed for process monitoring and system protection from unknown processes."
Free M4a to MP3 Converter
Free M4a to MP3 Converter:
"The program supports a number of input formats, like the above mentioned AAC, M4a, MP4 audio, M4b (audiobooks), and some other MPEG-4 based audio formats. You can convert those types of audio files to MP3 or uncompressed WAV."
Thursday, July 24, 2008
vuplayer
vuplayer.com
VUPlayer is a freeware multi-format audio player for Windows
supporting the following formats:
MOD • Sound/Noise/ProTracker
MTM • MultiTracker
S3M • ScreamTracker
XM • FastTracker
IT • ImpulseTracker
MO3 • MO3 Packer
MP3 • MPEG Audio
MP4 • QuickTime MPEG-4 (AAC/Apple Lossless)
MPC • Musepack
OGG • Ogg Vorbis
FLAC • Free Lossless Audio Codec
APE • Monkey's Audio
WV • WavPack
AIFF • Audio Interchange File Format
WMA • Windows Media Audio
WAV • Windows PCM/ACM
MIDI • Musical Instrument Digital Interface
CD • Audio CD
SMPlayer
SMPlayer - General Info:
"SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more."
MPUI, the MPlayer frontend for Windows
MPUI, the MPlayer frontend for Windows
It is a small program for Windows that takes the command-line hassle off you. Instead, you will get a no-frills, straight-to-the-point GUI that resembles the venerable Windows Media Player 6. It does not support every feature of MPlayer – there are just too many of them – but it is a solid »workhorse« media player tool suitable for most, if not all, everyday needs.
.:: The GodFather ::.
.:: The GodFather ::.
The GodFather is here to put order to chaos and put you in control.No more strange file names and endless search for "that song"! Rename,update Tags,restructure files on hard disk, create/merge play lists,encode-decode with LAME/Ogg Vorbis/MpcEnc, export/import to/from file, play, use freedb.org & allmusic.com, catalog them in a library... with ease of use and perfect results every time.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Phatch - Photo Batch Processor
Phatch - Photo Batch Processor
Phatch is a simple to use cross-platform graphical Photo Batch Processor and Exif Renamer with a nice graphical user interface. Phatch handles all popular image formats and can duplicate (sub)folder hierarchies
Flookey
Flookey:
"The intelligent personal music manager for your PC.
This software ...
* helps you to create meaningful playlists*
* provides efficient navigation through your personal song library
* adapts to your personal listening preferences and suggests songs from your private library
* creates dynamic and adjustable playlists from your private collection
* detects similarities between between your songs based on audio analysis, meta data, and your listening preferences"
HWiNFO(32) - Hardware Information and Analysis Tools
HWiNFO(32) - Hardware Information and Analysis Tools:
"HWiNFO™ and HWiNFO32™ are professional hardware information and diagnostic tools supporting latest components, industry technologies and standards. Both tools are designed to collect and present the maximum amount of information possible about computer's hardware which makes them suitable for users searching for driver updates, computer manufacturers, system integrators and technical experts as well. Retrieved information is presented in a logical and easily understandable form and can be exported into various types of reports."
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Free MP3 converter - Lame Front-End 1.1 - MP3 encoder, MP3 decodr, WAV to MP3, MP3 to WAV - Jacek Pazera
Free MP3 converter - Lame Front-End 1.1 - MP3 encoder, MP3 decodr, WAV to MP3, MP3 to WAV - Jacek Pazera:
"Graphical interface for the popular and very fast MP3 encoder & decoder - LAME. It offers easy access to all LAME parameters without the need for command line usage. The program offers a simple mode and an advanced mode which reveals additional expert options."
Free Mp3/Wma/Ogg Converter
Mp3 to Wma free converter, wma editor, mp3 editor - Free Mp3/Wma/Ogg Converter:
"# Support Mp3, Wma, Ogg and Wav files
Free MP3/WMA/OGG Converter helps you convert WMA to MP3, MP3 to WMA, WAV to MP3, OGG to MP3, etc with friendly interface and lots of useful features.
# Merge audio files
Merge multiple files into one big file, support MP3, WAV, WMA and OGG formats.
# Support batch conversion
Free MP3/WMA/OGG Converter allows you to easily convert multiple audio files at one click."
Monday, July 21, 2008
WebVideoCap - Capture Flash video (.flv) and RTSP/MMS streams from Video Web sites
WebVideoCap - Capture Flash video (.flv) and RTSP/MMS streams from Video Web sites:
"WebVideoCap can capture the video files of most popular video-sharing sites, including YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, iFilm, Metacafe, Putfile, and more..."
Important Notice for Vista/SP1 Users
It seems that the SP1 update of Windows Vista completely breaks the capture mechanism of WebVideoCap, and thus it cannot capture any video after installing SP1. I'll try to find a solution for this problem in future versions.Skuld iPod Converter
Skuld Video Converter, DVD Converter, iPod Converter, AVI to DVD
Skuld iPod Converter is an easy-to-use video converting software. It helps you convert your video files of almost all popular video formats to iPod videos, and it is completely free now. It also allows you set start point and length of clips you want to convert, and can manage history conversion record for you.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Enersoft GmbH - SiteGenWiz
Enersoft GmbH - SiteGenWiz
Enersoft SiteGenWiz is a Web Site Generator for html novices and
people who just want a web site without the hassle of coding html.
Design your own web pages without any HTML knowledge.
Update and even redesign your site at any time with just a few clicksNamu6
Namu6 - Free, easy to use website building software:
"Namu6 is a fast and easy way to create, maintain, and publish a website.
Namu6 is freeware, there are no nag screens and it is not crippled in any way. Get it now! for Windows 98, Me, 2000 and XP."
Friday, July 18, 2008
Tomahawk PDF Freeware Version
Tomahawk PDF Freeware Version:
"Tomahawk PDF is the freeware version of Tomahawk Gold. The freeware version may not have all the bells and whistles of the full version of Tomahawk Gold but it is still one of the most advanced word processing/pdf creation software packages available for the Windows platform. This comfortably designed program with a familiar interface that's easy to use, allows documents to be produced and saved in a number of formats, including rich text; exported as HTML; or converted to PDF."
Thursday, July 17, 2008
LogonStudio
Stardock.com - Your Edge In Software:
"LogonStudio is a free program that allows users to change their Windows XP logon screens. It comes with several logon screens to choose from,"
Translate.Net
Translate.Net - Free client to network translations services:
"The Translate.Net will help you to translate words and phrases to and from numerous languages in simple way. This free, open-source software work as client to most popular translating services available online (translators, monolingual and bilingual dictionaries).
Using results of translations from many different sources allow receiving much more reliability of translation."
nCleaner
nCleaner:
"nCleaner is a system cleaner that allows you to clean both your system and applications, free more disk space, boost your system's speed and get more stability and privacy protection.
nCleaner contains an advanced system and application cleaner with over 90 cleaning items available, a Registry Cleaner, a Tweak Manager, an advanced Startup Manager, a Junk Finder, a Free Space Shredder, a System Resource Monitor, a System Adviser, supports logging and statistics as well as advanced Scheduling."
Encrypt Files
Encrypt Files - Free Software:
"Encrypt Files is FREE program. With Encrypt Files you can protect your files and folders from unauthorized viewing."
FreeSnap
Blue Onion Software - FreeSnap:
"FreeSnap allows you to instantly resize any window edge to the corresponding screen edge."
Desk Drive
Blue Onion Software - Desk Drive:
"Desk Drive™ solves a really annoying problem. You pop a USB thumb drive or DVD into your computer and then you have to open Window's Explorer and find the mapped drive or folder. Desk Drive adds a desktop icon pointing to the drive automatically. Remove the media and the shortcut goes away."
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
PCPal Beta
PCPal Beta – PC Optimization and Protection:
"PCPal Beta is an easy-to-use tool that notifies users about problems in their PC and helps fix them. PCPal Beta helps detect and resolve issues in a wide range of categories, such as, performance, networking and printing"
Sunday, July 13, 2008
VisiPics
Main Page - VisiPics:
"VisiPics does more than just look for identical files, it goes beyond checksums to look for similar pictures and does it all with a simple user interface."
Quicksys RegDefrag
Quicksys RegDefrag - Defrag, Optimize and Compact Windows Registry
Quicksys RegDefrag is a freeware utility to defrag registry. It optimizes registry by removing gaps, fragments and wasted space in Windows registry files.
AOA Audio extractor
AOA Audio Extractor:
"AoA Audio Extractor provides you a handy tool to extract audio/sound or background music from video files.
With AoA Audio Extractor, you can easily extract audio tracks from AVI, MPEG, MPG, FLV (Flash Video), DAT, WMV, MOV, MP4, 3GP video files and save them as MP3, WAV and AC3 formats.
It can also be used to save any portion of the audio of a video file.
AoA Audio Extractor is FREE software. You don't need to pay for AoA Audio Extractor."
Pandora File Recovery
Pandora File Recovery - Find and recover deleted files of any type - free.:
"Pandora Recovery allows you to find and recover recoverable deleted files from NTFS-formatted volumes, regardless of their type - you can recover pictures, songs, movies or documents. Pandora Recovery will scan your hard drive and build an index of existing and deleted files and directories (folders) on any logical drive of your computer with supported file format."
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Fotosketcher
"This free program can help you create images that look like they have been hand drawn by an artist. If you want to turn a portrait, the photograph of your house or even the picture of your pet into a black & white or colour drawing or painting, then look no further, FotoSketcher will do the job in just a few seconds."
Fotosketcher
USB Disk Ejector
USB Disk Ejector | Quick And Easy Software:
"A program that allows you to quickly remove USB devices in Windows. It was originally designed to remove only USB pen drives but will now eject any USB device."
yAttach!
yAttach!:
"yAttach! allows you to easily attach files to new messages in the all-new Yahoo! Mail. All the features available in Windows that were once only available to your desktop mail-using friends are now available to all Yahoo! Mail users."
iSpring Free
Free PowerPoint to Flash Converter | iSpring Free:
"Free PowerPoint to Flash converter creates web friendly Flash movies from your PowerPoint content keeping its visual parameters and animation effects. Generated Flash presentation will look as if it has always been a Flash movie."
360desktop
360desktop:
"Get almost unlimited desktop space; make desktop widgets from your favorite pieces of the web, plus create & share 360� interactive wallpaper."
Mz Vista Force
Mz Vista Force:
"Mz Vista Force is an updated version of Mz Ultimate Tweaker, to work on Windows Vista.
The interface, the -apply tweaks- and -load- engine are rebuild. It also comes with much more new Tweaks.
Mz Vista Force features:
* Performance Tweaks
* Windows Tweaks
* Internet Optimizer
* Registry Optimizer
* StartUp Manager
* Services Manager
* Backup - Restore Service"
Mz Ultimate Tweaker
Mz Ultimate Tweaker
Is a system tweaker, equipped with the most powerful speed tweaks for Windows Xp.
It is recommended for advanced users. Also, comes with a help file, which explains -in deep- all the tweaks.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
PC Disk Clone
PC Disk Clone: "Copy entire HDD using PCDiskClone
PCDiskClone is a Linux LiveCD based boot CD that allows cloning of computer hard drives to backup data or migrating system to another PC. It copies all data on physical level with a full support of IDE, SATA, SCSI, USB, Firewire Interfaces. Besides these compatabilites, PCDiskClone clones at a high speed of more than 7GB per miniute."
Ophcrack
Ophcrack:
"Ophcrack is a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a Graphical User Interface and runs on multiple platforms."
PCLoginNow
PCLoginNow, Access your computer now.
PCLoginNow is an easy-to-use tool to reset local administrator and other accounts passwords on Windows system. No need to reinstall the system. It resets Windows passwords and Windows security settings instantly. All version of Windows are completely supported. It's an incredible CD for Home users and Businesses. And most of all, it's the most popular and safe solution for removing your Windows password until now.
openPim - easy-to-use PIM software
openPim - easy-to-use PIM software:
"openPim is an easy-to-use PIM software. It allows you to organize your contacts, web-links, passwords, events and notes in one file."
gAttach!
gAttach!
gAttach! allows you to easily attach files to new messages in Gmail or Google Apps Mail. All the features available in Windows that were once only available to your desktop mail-using friends are now available to all Gmail users.
Morz Image Converter - easy image converter (photo, picture, graphic converter).
Morz Image Converter
Batch conversion
Convert all image types in entire folder, or just select one type.
Convert by right-clicking
Convert files right from Windows Explorer context menu. Right-click on any file to let your machine analyze it. If the file is a graphics one, you'll be able to convert it.
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
DriverMax for Windows Vista and Windows XP - easily reinstall all your Windows drivers within a few minutes
DriverMax for Windows Vista and Windows XP:
"DriverMax is a new tool that allows you to download the latest driver updates for your computer. No more searching for rare drivers on discs or on the web or inserting one installation CD after the other. Just create a free account, log in, and start downloading the updates that you need."
USB Image Tool
USB Image Tool:
USB Image Tool can create images of USB memory sticks and MP3 players, that are mounted as USB drives. It allows you switch between images with different music styles on your MP3 Player or to make an exact backup image of your USB Stick.
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
HP Smart Web Printing enables simple, predictable web page printing.
HP Smart Web Printing
HP Smart Web Printing lets you select, store and organize text and graphics from multiple web pages and then edit and print exactly what you see onscreen. It gives you the control you need to print meaningful information while minimizing waste.
Saturday, July 05, 2008
pivot
pivot
Pivot makes it easy to create stick-figure animations. You can build your own stick figures and load your own backgrounds.
Celestia: Home
Celestia: Home
Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.
FileTypesMan - Alternative to 'File Types' manager of Windows
FileTypesMan
FileTypesMan is an alternative to the 'File Types' tab in the 'Folder Options' of Windows. It displays the list of all file extensions and types registered on your computer. For each file type, the following information is displayed: Type Name, Description, MIME Type, Perceived Type, Flags, Browser Flags, and more.
FileTypesMan also allows you to easily edit the properties and flags of each file type, as well as it allows you to add, edit, and remove actions in a file type.
Types
Types:
"“Types” is a free and lightweight configuration utility for Windows XP and Vista that allows you to edit program associations, icons, context menus and other properties of various file types displayed in Windows Explorer."
Returnil Virtual System Personal Edition - Returnil
Returnil Virtual System Personal Edition - Returnil:
"The Returnil Virtual System Premium Edition is a powerful virtualization technology that completely mirrors your actual computer setup and it can create a virtual storage disk within your PC where you can save documents, data, and files while using the System Protection feature."
Friday, July 04, 2008
SystemExplorer
SystemExplorer Homepage
OS: Windows XP or Windows Vista
TTSReader - Full-featured text-to-speech software package
TTSReader:
"TTSReader is a full-featured, text-to speech software package that allows reading text aloud as well as to wav or mp3 files. TTSReader is freeware, therefore you can download and use it free of charge.
Main Features:
* Intuitive user interface design
* Automatic highlighting of currently read text
* Reading to wav
* Reading to mp3, with adjustable settings
* Pronunciation corrections
* Support for both SAPI4 and SAPI5 voices
* Support for rich text formatting
* Skipping of sentences or paragraphs while reading
* Auto-reading the clipboard
* Reading with control tags
* Global hotkeys
* Documentation provided for all features"
Thursday, July 03, 2008
FastPictureViewer | A Fast Picture Viewer for Windows Vista & XP, with Adobe XMP & Vista Rating
FastPictureViewer
FastPictureViewer is a small and fast image viewer, so simple compared to usual viewers that its purpose might not be immediately apparent. The program is optimized to do just one task: browse entire folders of digital photos as quickly as possible, while allowing for rapid sharpness checks
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Podmailing
Podmailing: Send large files - unlimited file sharing with BitTorrent:
"You can send any size file or folder by e-mail in a breeze with Podmailing, without clogging your inbox."
Remobo (beta) - Instant Private Network ™ Application
Remobo (beta) - Instant Private Network ™ Application:
"Main Features Control your own computer remotely from any other computer.
Access your files securely from work or while travelling.
Share files, photos and media with friends & family on your network.
Secure all your messages and file transfers against hackers.
Create a virtual private network (VPN) instantly and securely.
Play LAN games over the Internet as if you were all in the same place.
Connect to any computer in your list securely to access files and data.
Run virtually any 3rd party application on top of Remobo.
Want even more? See how our community of users is finding new and creative ways to use Remobo. Or download it now and try it out!"
Places Bar Editor 1.0
Places Bar Editor 1.0: "Windows 2000/ME/XP/Vista and Office dialogs have 5 buttons on the left hand Outlook-style bar known as the PlacesBar. This utility allows you to change them to be any folder you want."
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
ManicTime
Personal time management application - ManicTime.com
This program sits unobtrusively in the system tray and keeps track of absolutely anything you do with your PC: websites you open, e-mails you send, documents you write,
